Today in Cold War History March 31
1948 – Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe
1949 – The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
1951 – US tanks exceed 38° of latitude in Korea
1954 – USSR offers to join NATO
1958 – US Navy forms atomic sub division
1958 – USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, & urges US & Britain to do same
1959 – The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
1964 – A coup d’état in Brazil establishes a military government, under the aegis of general Castello Branco.
1965 – US ordered the 1st combat troops to Vietnam
1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
1967 – U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Consular Treaty, the first bi-lateral pact with the Soviet Union since the Bolshevik Revolution.
1970 – The U.S. forces in Vietnam down a MIG-21, it was the first since September 1968.
1970 – Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
1970 – Nine terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijack Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.
1978 – USSR launches Kosmos 1000 navigational satellite
1979 – The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
1990 – Approximately 200,000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
1991 – Georgian independence referendum, 1991: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country’s independence from the Soviet Union.Warsaw Pact dissolves

My goal with this blog is to offend everyone in the world at least once with my words… so no one has a reason to have a heightened sense of themselves. We are all ignorant, we are all found wanting, we are all bad people sometimes.